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Thursday, December 22, 2011

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I did some cool things lately with TFS Lab Management API, from connecting it to TFS Web Access and allow REST access to the lab (if you want to ask why – The customer is always right ). So this part of TFS API will deal with Lab Management API, although Lab Management API is not public I’ll show some cool things you can do but this will be under your own risk. Again, this is just the beginning of the Lab Management API, so let’s get started Download Demo Project Step 1:...

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Microsoft Open Day–Testing in Visual Studio 2010 Two days a ago I had the honor to give 4 hours lecture on Testing using Visual Studio 2010 in Microsoft Israel for more than 100 people about the entire suite for Testers in Visual Studio 2010, This wasn’t just another overview session but hand zone session on each subject: Microsoft Test Manager – Read More Lab Management– Read More ...

Sunday, December 12, 2010

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements On my previous posts I’ve talked about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released, now available for everyone and not just MSDN Subscribers. Service Pack 1 Beta - General availability download Service Pack 1 Beta – MS DN Subscribers only download In the last post I wrote about about Improvements comes with SP1 Beta for VS/TFS 2010 , but not all… from the Testers side there were also a lot improvements and here is some of them: For the...

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version I’ve heard this question a lot –> Release Version??? I’m already using Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management… You are using the Lab Management “Release Candidate” version… When Microsoft release Visual Studio they define Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality because didn’t got enough customer feedback to feel really confident that it was 100% ready for prime time. Microsoft announced that Lab Management will not be sold as a separate product, but instead will be available to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Microsoft Key Note At SIGIST 2010 - Test Automation – Done Today I had the honor to participate at SIGIST 2010 conference (The third year) and be a part of Microsoft Key Note on Test Automation in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager. (Last year lecture - Sigist 2009 – Lab Management & Pictures) I’ve showed couple of cool demos using “Fast-Forward for Manual Testing”, Rich Bugs using Data Collectors and Lab Manager solution. And I showed a short demo on how to use Eclipse IDE with TFS 2010 using...

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Visual Studio 2010 – What Version Is For Me? As you know Visual Studio 2010 Is Released and Available for Download on MSDN. If you look at your MSDN download section you’ll notice there couple of versions available for download, In Visual Studio Team System 2005/2008 we had Testing version, Developer (DB) version Architecture version and Suite that contains all. Visual Studio 2010 comes with 4 editions with more global names (not Tester or Developer): ...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Sigist 2009 – The Rise Of QA (Microsoft Test & Lab Manager)
Today I had the honor to present Microsoft Keynote in Sigist 2009 conference, the new and powerful tester tool in Visual Studio Team System 2010 "Microsoft Test & Lab Manager"
SIGiST Israel was founded in June 2000, by Mr. Alon Linetzki, and was self sponsored, for the first few meetings. Today, after many meetings, out of which several were sponsored by RadView, Rational (IBM) and Mercury (HP-Software), SIGiST Israel is the most reorganized testing community in the Israeli market. The SIGiST board today includes also Mr. Yan Baron, Automation...

Monday, May 25, 2009

Bye “Camano” And Welcome To “Microsoft Test and Lab Manager” Official Names for the 2010 Test Products now announced. Martin Hinshelwood's Blog published a great post on DEV10 - Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Ships That You can see the announcement here by Jason Zander. The VSTS Lab Management team blog also posts the Lab Management High Level Architecture